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Hamas’s former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said during a meeting in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that the movement had received information of a US plan to offer Palestinian leaders a state with its capital in Abu Dis, a Palestinian village near East Jerusalem... connected to the Al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem with a bridge. The plan also proposed dividing the West Bank into three sections and creating an autonomous region in the Gaza Strip. Abu Dis, a small rural community overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem to the southwest and the Jordan Valley to the east, had been...

Palestinians in the village of Abu Dis, which lies just outside of the Jerusalem municipal boundaries, staged a procession over the weekend to mark the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Marxist faction and a member organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Dozens of Palestinians were seen brandishing AK-47 and M16 semiautomatic rifles as well as hand grenades and pistols while clad in military gear, according to Israel Radio. A number of shots were fired in the air during the festivities. .....

Dozens of Palestinian Authority Arabs on Tuesday created a hole through the security barrier that runs between the Arab village of Abu Dis and Jerusalem. The Arabs said that IDF forces who were stationed nearby dispersed them using tear gas and stun grenades. A similar incident took place two months ago, when dozens of Arab men held a protest against the security barrier, taking large hammers and creating a gaping hole in the wall. Several men used the hole to enter Jerusalem without going through a security checkpoint. That protest was part of the “Nakba Day” events in which Arabs...

Oct. 4, 2003 Arabs set Jewish-owned car on fire in Jerusalem By ETGAR LEFKOVITS A Jewish-owned vehicle was set on fire in Jerusalem's mixed Abu-Tor neighborhood Saturday afternoon, police said. Three Arabs caught red handed by police at the scene of the attack, were placed under arrest. The car, which was parked on Rehov Gichon, was badly damaged in the blaze. The central Jerusalem neighborhood where the attack occurred is part Arab, and part Jewish. In other violence just outside the city Saturday, a border policeman was lightly wounded in the leg after scores of Palestinians pelted police with stones...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/30/02 Op.Mountain Sweep, Khost, Kabul, raisin factory, market, Children Center Afghan prison, Kandahar, Abu Dis, Ramallah, Baaneh, Bakri clan, Gaza, al-Asefa, human shields, Baghdad, Fallouja, Ramsey Clark, Johannesburg, Hamburg, Zim Antwerp === Afghanistan ===== Operation Mountain Sweep, Khost ===== In Khost, Afghanistan, electronic circuit boards and triggering devices have been found as part of Operation Mountain Sweep. 9 people were held, and a ton of weapons and ammunition taken. ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the raisin factory. In Kabul, at the market. In Kabul, at the 911 photo exhibition, organized by...

Arafat lies about his birthplaceDanny RubensteinArab Affairs correspondent, HaAretzhttp://israelbehindthenews.com/Aug-06-00.htmWhat a difference a birthplace makes: How, contrary to the facts, was Arafat born in Jerusalem?One of the pieces of information leaked to the Arabs at Camp David (to Muhammad el-Abzi of the international Al-Quds newspaper) stated that Prime Minister Ehud Barak suggested to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat that he set up his presidential offices in the village of Abu Dis, which is actually a suburb of East Jerusalem.Abu Dis is even closer to the Old City and the Temple Mount than the Israeli Knesset building, and Barak allegedly said to...